02199cam a2200325 a 4500 48222 20230410121027.0 020725s2010 ctua bs f000 0 eng d 2009029670 (OCoLC)ocn320187450 DLC DLC YDX NPL CPA CDX QBX LTP 9781599218519 1599218518 (OCoLC)320187450 n-us--- JK 468 F144b 2010 327.1273 Faddis, Charles S. Beyond repair : the decline and fall of the CIA / Charles S. Faddis. Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2010. 183 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- Donovan would not make it -- Leadership? -- Calcification -- Define elite -- Political football -- The legion -- Everybody into the pool -- If one cook is good, ten must be better -- A new OSS. "Faddis discusses the birth of the CIA--then called the Office of Strategic Services--during World War II under "Wild Bill" Donovan, the twentieth-century American father of spy craft. Donovan's daring would not get him far in today's CIA, Faddis observes. Describing how the twenty-first-century CIA works from the inside out, he paints an unsettling picture of an agency that has truly gone awry--recalling, for example, his own experience in a Middle Eastern country as a chief of station without a qualified Arabic linguist on hand. Faddis concludes by setting forth the main points of a plan for building a new entity. He proposes that this agency draw on the best qualities of the OSS (and readopt its name) while adapting to twenty-first-century needs, and that it be staffed by many of the CIA's finest men and women. This new agency would maintain the midnight watch, so Americans can sleep well at night." --Cover, p. 2. United States. Central Intelligence Agency History. Intelligence service United States History. Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1006/2009029670-b.html lcc bk C0 DRFGD 56486 56486 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 1 0 JK 468 F144b 2010 00000020717 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 bk